Add option to output files to a specific directory

[NathanLovato]

Request from @cgvirus

Is it possible to throw all proxy outputs in a specific directory with commandline argument?

Reason: It is quite possible to get footage from banks and servers. And creating proxy in those and finding them later to delete is quite unproductive.

Finding: In Blender we have Proxy Setting>Project>Directory

This ensures all proxy will go to a global directory. This is convenient as we can just delete the whole proxy folder when project is done. Also managing proxies will be simpler.

[cgvirus]

Hi, so my studio has asked for some requirement for BLender VSE recently. This one was my first TODO.
Let me know please if this is suitable for power sequencer pipeline too. I will try to implement the bpsproxy then. Thanks.
https://github.com/cgvirus/blender-vse-easy-proxy

Demo:
https://youtu.be/t-EVhOYGyBY

More details:
https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/0Nfbbc/

[NathanLovato]

Sorry, I didn't get your request. What would you need or like to do?

[cgvirus]

Our main goal was to create proxy within Blender using ffmpeg. No CLI. as artists freak out seeing these stuffs. So I have implemented ffmpeg in Blender GUI to create the proxy. It also supports creating proxy from a directory.

If Power sequencer wants this kind of setup I can just refactor the code a little bit to implement BPSProxy as well within it. You can see the demo to understand the workflow I was asking for in 2019.

[NathanLovato]

Ah sure, well if you'd like, some nice interface would be welcome of course! Note that BPSproxy supports the types of proxies supported by Blender (25, 50, 75, 100%, video and images) and that we'd want to keep that, rather than having a hard-coded proxy size.

[cgvirus]

Alright. I will send a PR when possible. Thanks.

[NathanLovato]

Thank you!